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50 Years of LGBTQ Scholarship at APSA Mini-Conference

APSA is proud to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first queer politics paper presented at an Annual Meeting. In 1973 in New Orleans, Ken Sherrill prepared and presented, “Leaders in the Gay Activist Movement: The Problem of Finding the Followers.” Since then, there have been many followers. Empirical and theoretical papers presented at APSA are legion. We formed a caucus, a status committee, a section dedicated to sexuality and politics research, and many awards encouraging and honoring queer scholarship. We forged difficult paths to legitimate queer inquiries in political science. This year, we pause to reflect and celebrate, and we pause only briefly because our work is not complete. We proceed ever conscious of queer scholarship’s critical and urgent roles in contemporary politics, governance, and academic inquiry. This mini-conference assembles scholars in various career stages to reflect on queer scholarship in political science over the past fifty years and to speculate directions for the next fifty.